Power Quotes

"The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people." "The relation between power and knowledge is not one of exteriority" "Power is not a means it is an end" "The human mind is capable of anything" "Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit" "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." "We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them." "The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language." "Intellectuals may like to imagine themselves as people who speak truth to power, but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power" "The tongue is mightier than the blade" "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel" "The strengthening of our statehood is at times deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism." "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak" "I’m a King, no, I’m a Queen."